Kodoani.com – The Shiki Theater Company announced on Monday that it is producing a musical adaptation of the manga. The Black Museum: The Ghost and the Lady (Kuro Hakubutsukan: Ghost and Lady) by Kazuhiro Fujita, will premiere in May 2024 at the Autumn Theater at JR East Shiki in Tokyo. The play will start selling tickets in January 2024.
Scott Schwartz will direct the musical and Chikae Takahashi will write the script and lyrics. Harumi Fūki is in charge of composition and arrangement, and Megumi Chinju is the music director.
The Black Museum: The Ghost and the Lady manga is the second story in Fujita’s The Black Museum (Kuro Hakubutsukan) series. It was serialized in Kodansha’s Morning magazine from 2014 to 2015.
Deep in London’s Scotland Yard is an evidence room dedicated to the greatest mysteries of British history. In this “Black Museum” lies a distorted lead—two bullets fused together—key to the untold story of the wartime encounter between Florence Nightingale, the mother of the modern nurse, and the Man. he wears a supernatural gray shirt. The record books show that Florence fought for compassion when petty rivalries of empires threatened to destroy the hopes and lives of ordinary people. But a guest in the Black Museum knows the truth is not so simple, and the famous Lamp Woman has a terrible secret…
Fujita published the first manga, Kuro Hakubutsukan: Springald, in Morning magazine in 2007, and Kodansha published the manga as a volume. Fujita launched the third story in the series titled Kuro Hakubutsukan: Mikazuki yo, Kaibutsu to Odore (The Black Museum: Dance with Beasts, O Crescent Moon) in March 2022. Kodansha published the third volume. third compiled of the manga on March 23.